Paradysderina hermani, Platnick & Dupérré, 2011

Platnick, Norman I. & Dupérré, Nadine, 2011, The Andean Goblin Spiders Of The New Genera Paradysderina And Semidysderina (Araneae, Oonopidae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (364), pp. 1-121 : 61-64

Paradysderina hermani , new species Figures 442–449

TYPE: Female holotype taken from litter at an elevation of 5300 ft at a site 81 km NE of Baeza and 3 km SW of Reventador , Napo, Ecuador (Oct. 28–29, 1988; L. Herman), deposited in AMNH (PBI_OON 662) .

ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a patronym in honor of the collector, coleopterist Lee Herman.

DIAGNOSIS: Females can easily be recognized by the odd conformation of the postepigastric scutum, which is wide at the sides but medially reduced to a narrow strip of cuticle (figs. 444, 447).

MALE: Unknown.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 662, figs. 442–449): Total length 2.67. Elevated portion of pars

cephalica appears reticulate. Chilum small, rectangular. Postepigastric scutum only around epigastric furrow, not fused to epigastric scutum, laterally wide, but reduced medially to narrow strip of cuticle. Leg

spination: femora: I p0-0-2, r0-2-1, II p0-0-1; r0-1-0; tibiae: I v4-4-2, II v4-4-1p; metatarsi: I v2-2-2, II v2-1p-2. Anterior genitalic process posteriorly wide, narrowed only anterior of anterior atrial ridge.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Ecuador (Napo).

Figures

Figs. 442–449. Paradysderina hermani, new species, female. 442. Carapace, dorsal view. 443. Sternum and mouthparts, ventral view. 444. Abdomen, ventral view. 445. Carapace, anterior view. 446. Abdomen, lateral view. 447, 448. Epigastric region, ventral view. 449. Same, dorsal view.